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So this past week I received a new Interim Hardbound Volume #164 for our
subscription to L. Ed 2d. (I know, I know - who still gets hardbound
reporters? But they look so nice on the shelves...). Enclosed with the
book is a letter (dated a month earlier) informing me:
Now first off, I would have kind of liked to get the letter BEFORE I got
the book, so I might be able to retain my childlike delusion that I
actually have some say in what goes on with my Lexis/Bender account.
(Although the "...you will..." in the first sentence is pretty
imperious. Not much free will involved.)
Then there are the three selling points:
First and foremost - to the best of my knowledge, no one at my firm has
ever even looked at one of the annotations in the final bound volumes.
Heck, I'd be amazed if anybody even knew they were there.
Second - yes, you do reduce the NUMBER of advance sheets you have to
retain (but not the number you have to pay for) , but since the
individual advance sheets are a fraction the size of the bound volumes,
you're not really saving any shelf space.
Finally - the supplements they refer to contain the Citator Service and
Subsequent Annotations, you still have to consult (and pay for) the
annual supps.
The letter does point out that if I had an annual service subscription
for L.Ed, the interim volumes are free, but if you pay on a per update
basis the cost is $47 a pop. Since I'm in the latter category, it might
have been nice if someone had maybe asked me if I wanted to switch to
the annual service BEFORE they changed the playing field. I realize
that, library budget-wise, the $47 per volume three or four times a year
is just a drop in the bucket (oddly enough, we actually keep out library
budget in a bucket, mostly loose change that I find under the sofa
cushions in the lobby at the end of the day) but in this era of
shrinking funds and a general trend away from print sources, you'd think
maybe they would have put a little more thought into this.
I'm just sayin'...
Bob Ryan
Librarian
Hill, Farrer & Burrill, LLP
300 South Grand Ave, 37th Fl.
Los Angeles, CA 90071
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